Re: stabs changes for 64 bit targets
Joern Rennecke <[email protected]>
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Quoting Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]>: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:45:46AM -0400, David Taylor wrote: >> There are problems when using current STABS debug format for 64 bit >> targets. > > Why are you considering extending STABS at this point? > STABS support might very well be dropped altogether from GCC 4.9 or the next > release, people just should use DWARF[234] everywhere. I find stabs is still helpful when you try to inspect the assembly output by hand (or more precisely, by visual inspection in a text editor / pager).